There are a growing number of accounts that frequently submit games... I won't call them shitty games but they are cookie cutter games that appear to just keep rolling off an assembly line. The creators are either opportunists who employ third world labor, or developers who are swapping out some graphics and exerting minimal effort to submit as many games as possible.
Now, we've always been pretty lax about SPAM and we let you guys attempt to BLAM or PROTECT it... A lot of these games manage to make it through with reasonable scores in the 2.5-3.0 range and I guess some people are enjoying them. Many of them are somewhat decent, they just happen to be re-used over and over with new themes.
Do you think games like this should just continue to exist and pile up on NG? Or should we some day face a COOKIE CUTTER GAME APOCALYPSE where they all get mass-blammed?
I also am weary of the growing trend of games where you don't know who really made it. We don't allow you to submit a "stolen" game that someone else made, but we do let companies submit games that were produced by their staff, or developers they sponsored. Stuff like this likely won't be deleted, but as the amount of submissions on NG grows, I will continue to tighten the focus on games that were made by recognizable individuals. So keep that in mind when it comes to assigning credits.
Thoughts?
kmau
I noticed that some time ago too. There are lots of, sorry, crappy flash games coming in. While I don't say there's no effort involved I vote for the apocalypse.
If you choose to make a flash game you are usually aware of how difficult it can be to make a good innovative game, and if you lower your goals because of that and make a crappy 1 button game then you simply shouldn't make flash games at all except for practice because nobody will play it and it will be left in the virtual cellar of newgrounds, so basically theres no difference - it either hibernates on your harddrive or on newgrounds.
I must note however that there ARE simple flash games like Super Ryucopter.. so you shouldn't select what to blam by simplicity and bizarro-effortlessness alone.
Maybe just increase all users voting power against games only?
Like this:
My voting power for movies:
3,80
My voting power for games:
if score increases: 3,80
if score is lowered: 7,60